Transcript of Carrie Fosters' dialogue, featured in "Apocalypse Now: Redux."
The occupants of the out-of-fuel and downed Playboy helicopter are found stranded. They have sought refuge during a fierce and torrential rainstorm in an unorganized, muddy Medevac Center that lacks a CO (dead from stepping on a land-mine months earlier). Willard barters with the girls' manager (Bill Graham) in one of the hastily-assembled tents [in a 'frontier town' reminiscent of the one in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971)]. He exchanges some of the boat's reserve fuel for several of his randy crew members to have sex with the female entertainers. He tells the disbelieving group:
"I just made a deal with the people from Hua Phat. I negotiated two barrels of fuel for a couple of hours with the Bunnies.
Chief:
(Are) you givin' away our fuel for a Playmate of the Month?
Willard:
Nope. Playmate of the Year, Chief.
The two others find Bunnies as partners. In cross-cut scenes, Chef (a collector of Playboy magazines) is entertained by ex-Busch Gardens bird-trainer Miss May in the cockpit of the Playboy helicopter, while Lance socializes with the beautiful blonde Playmate of the Year in one of the tents. (When Lance removes his Playmate's boots, her groans simulate an orgasm after she asks: "Is it coming?") In a long monologue, the blonde describes her lonely fate as a celebrated centerfold to Lance, as he silently opens her blouse, bares her breasts, lays her down, applies stripes of green to her cheeks, and gently strokes her face. Her feelings emphasize her exploited, prostituted life, similar to the ones of the recruits sent to the battlefield:
"Being Playmate of the Year is the loneliest experience I can imagine. It's like - you try to express your feelings to someone, and show them your heart...and there's this glass wall between you. This invisible glass. And they can see your mouth moving...But they can't hear what you're saying...'Cause you can never really make them hear what you're tryin' to say...That's why I tried so desperately to show somebody that I had some talent...They make you do things that you don't wanna do, like, like, this picture here. (She opens up a photo scrapbook and points to one of the pictures.) I started feeling repulsed with myself...Maybe I'm unfit to have a relationship with a beautiful, innocent boy... (Lance applies face paint to himself.) I wish, I wish I could find just one person that could share my point of view. (She jumps up, stumbles across the muddy room, and accidentally upturns a metal coffin holding a soldier's naked corpse. Mortified, she cowers in a corner while being comforted.) Lance, that was somebody's son. Lance, there were things that they made me do that I didn't wanna do. They said, "Pull the ribbons between your legs." And I didn't wanna do it. But they said that was what was expected of me, that that's what people wanted to see. (She is startled to see Clean waiting outside to be next and peering in the window.) "
